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(You can’t normally get two income-replacement benefits, e.g. Carer's Allowance and the State Pension, paid together.) If you can't be paid Carer's Allowance because of this rule, you have an ‘underlying entitlement’ to Carer's Allowance instead. This might mean you could get: the carer premiums in Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced an independent review of the issue of overpayments to carers. Government urged to write off majority of carer’s allowance debts immediately ...
“The Government should also take this opportunity to review and reform the archaic and unfair Carer’s Allowance system as a whole. Created in the 1970s, it’s just not fit for purpose today.
PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.
The Care Act 2014, which received royal assent on 14 May 2014, and came into effect on 1 April 2015, [29] strengthens the rights and recognition of carers in the social care system; including, for the first time, giving carers a clear right to receive services, even if the person they care for does not receive local authority funding. [30]
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In 1981, Judith Oliver, a carer for her husband, founded the Association of Carers, aided by a grant of £9,879 from the Equal Opportunities Commission. The group campaigned for Invalid Care Allowance to be extended to married women. Following a test case brought to the European Court on behalf of Jackie Drake, in June 1986 the government was ...